i don't know what manner of--

[slumber]

I thought that campus shootings had truly ended in the 90s, that we've heard the last of them and Virginia Tech was simply an aberration. But 7 people have now died in Northern Illinois University, just ten months since Virginia, apparently, and it's just. Short of doing bag checks at every entrance of a campus to ensure our own safety, this is really the kind of thing that no one can predict, let alone prevent. (Do you really think it's a matter of reaching out to the potential gunman in your class? Someone somewhere will tick in a way you would never see coming, I think, and we're all fucked up one way or another and it's just a matter of how we cope, and this is just where others' coping leads, sometimes.)

The thing with tragedies like this is that they should not be happening this frequently. I want to know what's going wrong but I'm inclined to think that these things remain senseless and that there are no answers.

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[slumber.livejournal.com]

That's true; it really could happen anywhere, and there's no way to stop it if it ever does. I remember reading about a shooting at a preschool in some European country (I don't remember which) many years ago, and there had never been a tragedy of its kind before and everyone had been so shocked about it.

[ness-va.livejournal.com]

Then there was that shooting in the Amish country somewhere too the other year. Of all the places to have a shooting I think the Amish would have really least expected it.

[boho.livejournal.com]

are you thinking of dunblane?

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